I think this was a low-memory problem - it's a 4MB thinkpad, right? Dale Scheetz and Sven Rudolph are currently working on reducing memory usage in the boot floppies.
Thanks Bruce > Subject: RE: Need information from people who have had problems with boot > I would like to point out that I have finally managed to produce a working > Debian installation on my Thinkpad 365XD. I found the 1.1 diskset on > ftp.infomagic.com and installed the base system from those. The 1.1 disks have > no trouble booting the Thinkpad (though I have had no luck whatsoever booting > with the 1.2 disks). I then pointed dselect to the iConnect 1.2 CD that I had > purchased and worked from there. I no longer see the 1.1 distribution on > ftp.debian.org - would it not be a good idea to keep it? > > Paul > > On 07-Jan-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is building a new boot disk set while > >I am out cleaning up after a flood in my home and have no working > >computers. I know there are a number of people who have had trouble > >booting for various reasons, and Dale does not have any of the feedback > >you gave me. Please send him information on what drivers hang up your > >system, etc. > > > > Thanks > > > > Bruce > >-- > >Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. > >PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 > > > >-- > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------- > Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 > Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 > Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 > Email: Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ---------------------------------- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- End of excerpt from Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]